I would argue just the opposite: if he fired Manning today, there's not a coach or his agent that Currie's going to make contact with about the job until their season is over. Currie is well-connected with coaches and their agents across the country as well as numerous "insiders" at those schools, and I'm sure that since Day 1 of his hiring (well, more likely since Day 1 of Wellman's getting out of his way), he's "run in" to plenty of the established and up-and-comers, and those normally innocuous "how's it going?" comments have had an element of wink/nod that leaves doors open for when the time is right for both parties to see if there's a fit. It's like the guy who knows he's going to dump his wife, and everybody in the office knows it w/o saying so publicly; much easier to "flirt" and "gauge the talent" when you're married, than dumping the wife and the next day going up to a married chick and asking her if she'd like to ditch her old man and have sex.
